The New York Times has just named a new culture editor, and it’s Jon Landman. It’s a great choice. Jon, currently a deputy managing editor, has spent the last four years or so
overseeing the the integration of the print and Internet newsrooms at the Times. But before that he spent a “transitional year” — as Executive Editor Bill Keller wrote in his email to staff — “presiding over the [Culture] department, implementing a sweeping overhaul of the department and grooming new leadership” for it, namely Sam Sifton, whom he now replaces.
Jon has done plenty of other things at the Times, including run the Week In Review and Metro sections. If memory serves, he also worked in the Washington bureau and has worked at the Daily News, Newsday and the Chicago Sun-Times. He went to Amherst and the Columbia School of Journalism.
He answered readers’ questions in the “talk to the newsroom” web feature in 2006 here and his Wikipedia entry is here.